Amid the food shortages, though, humanitarian experts describe another failure: the international aid effort. Outsiders have yet to devise a formula that reaches basic standards for monitoring or effectiveness. After 15 years and about $2 billion of aid efforts, one in four pregnant women is malnourished and one in three children is stunted.

Seriously? How fucked up are you to make babies in North Korea? I mean, seriously? I dunno, give benefit of the doubt, or something. May be they make you do it. Somehow. Turkey baster, may be. Got to be, right? Because, otherwise things are going to turn out just great.